January 25, 2008, Friday 8-12

This space is for taking notes today. My user name is annchatham because my official name is Ann Chatham Rote, but family and friends always call me by my nickname, "Nancy" Rote.

Saving the page makes it live with edited changes. The save button is on the top tool bar and bottom tab also.

To edit again, click on "edit this page", type in changes and "save".

You will know it is saved when "Page updated" with a triangle enclosing an exclamation point to the left appears in a beige box above user name..

This technology is great for collaborative writing and planning especially if it is hard for a group to find time to meet.

Wiki's in plain English-good site-also rec. by Phillips Academy librarian and John. It is on our WIKI!

Wikipedia is overwritten but can be accurate and very current.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks

Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki a site shown by Beth Galloway

Beth's Page

http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbwiki.com/

nutmeg.wikispaces.com

Blog is more personal; no one else can edit your words; can have feed back and comments, short for "weblog", is diary like-a series of posts, like a ship's log by date, latest on top, series of dates, introspective writing, press release rather than collaborative nature of WIKI

RSS allow others to be notified of your blog post.